Difficulty is experienced in thrashing high moisture paddy either manually or mechanically. Varying quantities of unthrashed paddy, depending on the grain moisture at the time of thrashing, remain sticking to the straw after manual/mechanical thrashing. In this study paddy was thrashed manually and mechanically using a Drum type thrasher after its. full maturity as such and after spraying with common salt and Gramoxone sprays as pre-harvest desiccants. Thrashing was found to be easy in chemical desiccated crop, The unthrashed grains sticking to the straw were practically nil in case of the crop sprayed with Gramoxone 0.01%; whereas, upto 4.0% of the grains remained sticking to the panicles of the unsprayed parallel control crop after manual as well as mechanical thrashing. Because of the accelerated field desiccation, maximum grain recovery was possible in cases of crops receiving pre-harvest desiccants,
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